Mujercitas really made me wonder about the opportunity we all have to live a life full of joy. Made me also wonder how come most of us do not apprecite and value this opportunity given. With this book I have decided that I will, even if others don't, that's up to them. In addition, made me think about the family I once had and with a little more forgiveness, It could return to me. Read the book, if you are into the sentimental type, but if you are Stone-Cold don't waste your time!!!.

I think Mujercitas is a wonderfull book, which tell us about human kind. It teaches us to love each other ant tha the best things in life are those you can not buy with money.

First Edition published in 1969. A very informative and well researched book.702 pages.Signed Authors copy.Absolutly in mint condition.An EXCELLENT edition to any book collectors collection.

This book is a very well researched history involving one of the most important transportation corridors across Western America detailing the merging of various cultures including that of the Native Americans. Easy reading, accurate, historical documentation.

The appearance of the 1999 Oxford Book of English Verse, edited by Christopher Ricks, makes us ask about the 1972 New Oxford Book of English Verse, edited by Helen Gardner. Since they are both anthologies of centuries of poetry, there is a lot of overlap. But there are a lot of differences too. In order to include modern poems (Gardner stops at 1950), Ricks has had to cut, and some of my favorite poems did not make the cut: Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar", Keats's Last Sonnet, and Yeats's "An Irish Airman Foresees his Death", to name just three.

With "Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift", both books excerpt, and just what is excerpted is instructive. I prefer Ricks here. And Ricks's preservation of spelling and punctuation is in my opinion a better choice, though he then goes and leaves out Coleridge's marginal notes in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."

So, if you care about poetry, you need both books. Where they are different, they are both valuable. Where they are the same, they are not quite the same, and a comparison proves instructive. Or at least it has so proved to me.

My nightstand is small, so only a few books can fit. The space is reserved for those trusted friends that I turn to late at night, or when I'm sick. Gardner's volume is among them.

This anthology covers 900 pages of verse from Great Brittain, in a variety of styles and subjects. As an introduction to the deep range of English poetry, it had very few peers, and the only rival in taste in selection (both what is included and excluded) is the 5-volume anthology Auden & Pearson did for the Viking/Penguin Portables. Buy it; read it, a little at a time or straight through; reread it. You won't be disappointed.

Really good book. Lots of pictures. Lots of local color. Great writing.

This book is a wonderful account of the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. Lots of pictures, lots of local color, great writing!

Indigo is traveling with a family of performers, who have kind of adopted her in their midst. But all goes well until they reach a land where people start to rise from their beds and going soemwhere no one knows of, the crops start to bligth and amongst other things the sun doesn't rise.

In this state of eternal night and a forest of thorns growing everywhere, Indigo is sure she has found her demon, but to locate him, that's more difficult. The demon seems to be everywhere, through his illusions, and Indigo's powers of denial must be great not to believe him.

It's interesting how we see from book to book the development of Indigo's character, she really evolves becoming more determined, human, and grown up.

Nocturne is perhaps my favorite chapter in the epic journey of Indigo, although it is hard to pick one.In Nocturne, Louise Cooper blends contrasting elements very effectively. On the one side you have Indigo joined up with a travling show. Where motleys of colors and myriads of songs are the norm. But then color starts to depart from the landscape around them, and in the wake of blighted crops fear starts to grow. It is here Indigo meets her third demon, and unlike those in the past, her power takes center stage. This book gives haunting questions of reality, as well as what is the true nature of fear. With all these elements, it would have been very easy to fall victim to meaningless cliches. But as any fan of Louise Cooper will attest, one of her strongest suits is her ability to take ideas you have seen or heard before, and show them to you in a completely different way. If you are considering staring a series by Louise Cooper, make sure you have every book of the series before you start reading them, or you just might drive yourself crazy in the interim.

Not only does this little book have the wonderful traditional recipes of Norway and Norwegian Americans, it has a lot of terrific, older photos of Norwegian artifacts. For those who are researching Norwegian roots, this one is a gem.

More than 90 Norwegian recipes, some more than 100 years old, are in this book. The recipes came to America from grandmothers, great-grandmothers, and others. All the recipes are authentic!

The 88-page book features 24 pages of color photography by Joan Liffring-Zug depicting folk arts, events and foods centering primarily on Vesterheim, the Norwegian-American Museum in Decorah, Iowa.

Contributions of recipes come from all over the United States.

The book is dedicated "to all those who have helped to develop Vesterheim into one of the finest ethnic museums in America, where the descendants of Norwegian immigrants...can find the preservation on their heritage."

The author traces her husband's family for thirteen generations. His ancestors came from the island of Byroe, near Fister, Norway. Liffring-Zug tells of her Norwegian roots and of a grandfather who settled near Decorah, Iowa, and a great-uncle who died in the Civil War.

The cover photograph pictures Marilyn Skaugstad in her Norwegian grandmother's costume. Marilyn writes in the book: "Who would have thought as I sat with my elbows propped on grandma Olson's big kitchen table, watching her bake, that 40 years later I would be recalling her Norwegian heritage....With flour and dough frying, she told me about her summers as a little girl spent high in the mountains above the Sorfjorden Fjord making flatbread on an old wood-fired cookstove in a little cabin where she tended the sheep for her family. With her 'letter' in hand, she came to America in the early 1900s and worked for a family in Wisconsin. Eventually she married my grandfather, Ole J. Olson, whose family also came from Norway. They farmed a beautiful big farm in Humboldt County, Iowa.

Stories of families are covered in the book along with their recipe contributions.

If you really thought about it, a little baby is going to come into this world totally dependant on you, with nothing. No clothes, no hairbrush, no crib. Its all up to you. This is the only planner to actually help you plan out your purchases & borrowings so that when your baby arrives, you've thought of everything. When to apply for a SSN for the baby, questions to ask pediatricians, health care providers, midwives. When to and what to buy (clothes, furniture etc.) to spread the expense out. It has space for you to fill in all your answers too. I love this planner. Looking ahead, yeah, you have 9 months, but when you realize all that has to be done you may panic. This planner keeps it and you all together. I'm getting a second for our second pregnancy. Congratualtions!

Louise Edeiken and Johanna Antar are to be congratulated on their bouncing baby book, Now That You're Pregnant. The book is small, light and totebagable. The no-nonsense checklist format especially appeals to Dads-to-be...no wading through warm, fuzzy paragraphs on the joys of motherhood and feeling left out. Leave it to these two professional organizers.... Who wants to worry about insurance policies and diaper services, labor and lab work when there are bigger issues at stake...macadamia nut or choco-mint with that kosher dill? This book really takes the panic out of pregnancy. It's the best gift you can give or receive.

This book helped me turn alot of heads during my OB/GYN rotation. I always found some very relevant material being pimped either in the OR or on the wards. But there was also the esoteric nonsence that I unless I was a practitioner of the art and even then I would not need to know -I read this book prior to the rotation and was able to answer the important stuff and the esoteric stuff as well. I received HONORS.

The Questions in this book really are what are asked on rounds and during bedside examinations. Excellent to read after you have studied everything and what to organize everything in a "what could happen" scenario plan of attack. Result: lots of consultants nodding their heads.

I am a major fan of Louise Armstrong. Author of "Kiss Daddy Goodnight," and "Rocking the Cradle of Sexual Politics," Armstrong is a seeker of Truth and will stop at nothing to dis-cover what it is that puts America's children at risk and keeps them there. It is more than professionals and volunteers who can identify with what Armstrong has to say. Those who have partaken of the system can easily identify themselves in the pages that tell one story after another of lies, secrets and betrayal by a system that supposedly exists to rescue and protect our most vulnerable citizens. While Armstrong sees a system flailing in the wind of incompetence and confusion, I see more. In a system where no one is held accountable, where those who are targeted with "services," that are nothing more than "punishment" defined as "treatment," the Nazification of the social service system has created an open door to those who thrive on the exploitation of children for profit. If you don't believe it, read the other books I have reviewed. The truth will begin to reveal itself to you, too.

Louise Armstrong has exposed the dark underside of Child Welfare in this country. This is not a "feminist" book in any narrow definition of that term; rather this is a book for any American who believes our children deserve our best.

Armstrong details nothing less than an evil conspiracy. Federal mechanisms for funding, the courts and state bureaucrats have conspired to make the public believe that the nation's most tragic victims - abused children - are in good hands. Then the three branches of government then play the parts of those legendary monkeys - see no evil, speak no evil and hear no evil.

The concerned volunteer or interested citizen will be appalled at the stories Armstrong tells. They are heartbreaking stories that ring all too true for those of us who have worked or volunteered in the child welfare field. Those who are looking for an easy scapegoat, however, will be disappointed. The child welfare system in this nation is accountable to no one, and even though some of our nation's heroes work here every day, many - perhaps most - of the children are poorly served, even harmed.

Here is a system where no one keeps account of the most basic data - how many children, how many placements made, etc. - where secrets are every where and those in charge seem somehow unwilling or unable to make the changes necessary. Here the poorest women have their children taken away by a system seemingly without either a heart or a mind. For there is no caring and no logic to the punishment of both mother and child whose crimes are simply being born poor in the world's richest nation.

This isn't a book of answers, but it asks all the right questions. Read it, and then give it to a legislator.

Taking this trip back in time was particularly sweet. The story of this family struggling to do the right thing, finding different ways to achieve success is an inspiring one. I found a renewed faith in the goodness of distant generation.

One of the joys of reading is losing yourself in a good story. The fact that the story is based on truth makes it even more delectable. Set in the Victorian era, the women of the Raub family become connected to women of all ages as they rise to the challenges of life's trials with God's grace and human fortitude. My spirit was enriched as I rapidly turned the pages of this remarkable book.